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TIL that Jimmy Carter made the American microbew industry possible by legalizing the selling of malt, hops, and yeast to home brewers for the first time since Prohibition

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xV6bw A husband's snoring might keep his wife awake, but there are a couple of reasons he'll sleep through his own rumblings.
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